Maybe people are talking about this more and I'm just missing it but what are we trying do with AI again?<p>Better search engine?
Better Alexa?
Better autofill text on emails / sms?
Better McDonalds kiosks?
Automate web development?
Automate art?
Automate music?
Automate therapy?
Automate friendships?
Automate all human labor?
Star Trek computers?
Machines of loving grace?
Skynet?
There is no (unified) "we" in this context, as different people certainly have different goals for AI. I can only speak for myself, but my interest in AI is rooted in the idea that we can use AI to assist humans in solving harder problems than they can solve on their own. I forget who said it, but there was a quote I heard once that can be paraphrased as "Step 1, invent AI. Step 2, use AI to solve (climate change|hunger|poverty|disease|whatever)". That's pretty much the angle I approach this from.
Every option you've listed is probably the end goal of somebody, somewhere. Whether or not some/any of them are good/advisable is a separate question.